- Code
- PSD 102
- Name
- Sociology of Education
- Semester
- 2
- Lecture hours
- 3.00
- Seminar hours
- 1.00
- Laborator hours
- 0.00
- Credits
- 3.50
- ECTS
- 4.00
- Description
-
This course will examine the relationships between education and society by reviewing a variety of theoretical perspectives of education. This course aims to introduce students learn and teachers how to teach, so that teachers are able to integrate the findings of psycho-sociological education in teaching and giving their various disciplines. Three main components are involved: students, learning, and teaching. Topics for students are developing theories and teaching students and teaching characteristics, personal differences. Topics learning theories are learning and promoting learning. Topics are teaching models and learning projects.
- Objectives
-
The course aims to introduce participants to basic sociological concepts, theories, methods and research topic in the field of education optional subjects. Through various methods such as: reading, group study, discussion and research, participants are able to analyze the phenomenon of education at a critical point of view and to bring improvements to the matter.
- Java
- Tema
- 1
- Sociology of Education School Perspective and Theoretical Approaches Sociology of Education: A Unique Perspective on Schools, The Field of Sociology of Education, What Sociologists Study, Why Study Sociology of Education?, Kinds of Questions Asked by Sociologists of Education, Theoretical Approaches and the Development of Sociology of Education, Functionalist Theory, Conflict Theory, Interaction and Interpretive Theories, Recent Theories in the Sociology of Education, The Open Systems Approach, Research Methods in Sociology of Education (brief), Sociology of Education in the Twenty-First Century
- 2
- Conflicting Functions and Processes in Education What Makes the System Work, Conflicting Functions of Education, The Importance of Processes in Educational Systems,The Function of Socialization: What We Learn and How We Learn It, The Early Childhood Education Controversy, Role of the Media and Commercials in Socialization, The Function of Cultural Transmission and Process of Passing On Culture, Some Factors Affecting Learning, How to Pass On Culture, What Culture to Pass On, The Function of Social Control and Personal Development, Violence and Discipline in Schools, The Function of Selection and Allocation
- 3
- Education and the Process of Stratification The Crisis in Schooling, Education and Stratification Around the World, The Process of Stratification: Is Inequality Inevitable?, Determinants of Social Class, Major Explanations of Stratification, Stratification and Equality of Educational Opportunity, The Meaning of
- 4
- Race, Class, and Gender: Attempts to Achieve Equality of Educational Opportunity Gender and Equality of Educational Opportunity, Sex-Role Socialization, Sex Differences in the Educational System, Combating Gender Differences, Class, Race, and Attempts to Rectify Inequalities in Educational Opportunity, Trends in Public School Enrollments, The Underclass and At-Risk Students, Research on Equality of Educational Opportunity, The Battle over Desegregation, Court Cases on Desegregation, Effects of Efforts to Desegregate Schools, Student Goals, Aspirations, and Future Prospects, Integration Attempts, Special Education Students, Gifted Students, Improving Schools for Minority Students,
- 5
- The School as an Organization Goals of the School System, Societal and Community Goals, School Goals, Individual Goals, School Functions: The Purposes of the School, Diverse Functions, Unanticipated Consequences of Functions, Conflicting Goals and Functions, The School as an Organization, The School as a Bureaucracy, Characteristics of Bureaucracy, Development of Schools as Bureaucracies, Problems in Educational Bureaucracies, Centralized versus Decentralized Decision Making: The Fight over Control of Schools, Centralization of Decision Making, Decentralization, Professionals in the Educational System
- 6
- The Roles in School - Formal School Statuses and Roles The Meaning of Roles Status and Roles in the System, The School Organization and Roles, Role Expectations and Conflict, Perspectives on Roles, Roles in Schools, School Boards: Liaison Between School and Community, Superintendent: Manager of the School System, The Principal: School Boss-in-the-Middle, Teachers: The Front Line, Support Roles in the School: Behind the Scenes
- 7
- Students: The Core of the School Student Characteristics, Expectations for the Student Role, Learning the Student Role, Conflicting Expectations for the Student Role, Student Coping Mechanisms, School Failures and Dropouts, Who Drops Out?, Why Students Drop Out, Gangs and Schools, School Crime and Violence, Retention and Suspension: School Reactions to Problem Students, Adolescent Employment and Dropping Out of School, The Future for Dropouts, Criticisms of the Student Role, Students and the Informal System, Student's Self-Concept, School Value Climate and Student Achievement, Teacher and Student Expectations, Peer Groups and Student Culture, Student Coping Strategies, Students and Their Environments, Effects of Home Environment on Educational Achievement, Family Background and Parental Involvement, Social Class Background, Parenting Styles, Family Aspirations, Single-Parent Homes, The Role of Mothers, The Number of Siblings,
- 8
- Midterm Exam
- 9
- The Informal System and the
- 10
- The System of Higher Education History and Development of Higher Education, Theoretical Approaches to Higher Education, The Expansion of Higher Education, Access to Higher Education, Stratification and Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, Elite versus Public Colleges, Admissions and the Courts, Growth of Higher Education, The School-to-Work Transition and the Credential Crisis, Functions of the Higher Education System, The University as a Community, The Function of Research, The Function of Teaching, The Function of Service, The Function of the
- 11
- Educational Systems Around the World: A Comparative view Cross-Cultural Educational Studies, Comparative Education as a Field of Study, Comparative Education and the Systems Approach, Approaches to Cross-Cultural Studies of Educational Systems, Comparative International Studies of Achievement, Theoretical Perspectives and Typologies in Comparative Education, Modernization and Human Capital Perspectives,
- 12
- Educational Systems around the World: Case Studies Education in Turkey, Education in Albania, Education in the US, Education in Britain, Education in the People's Republic of China, Formal Education in Colonial Africa, History of Ghanaian Education
- 13
- Educational Movements and Reform The Nature of Educational Movements, Educational Movements Throughout History, Early European Education: Purpose and Function for Society, Alternative Education and Related Movements,: Third World Alternative Educational Movements, English Primary Schools, Open Classrooms, Back to Basics, Private Schools, Accountability Movements, Effective Schools and Educational Reform, Structural and Curricular Changes in the Schools, The
- 14
- Change and Planning in Educational Systems The Dynamics of Change, Change and Levels of Analysis, Sources of Change, Perspectives on Change, Structural Functional Approach to Change, Conflict Approach to Change, Open Systems Approach to Change, Bringing About Change, Individuals in the System, Change at the School Level, Strategies for School Change, Types of Strategies, Obstacles and Resistance to Implementation of Change, The Sociologist's Role in Educational Change and Policy Formation,
- 15
- Schools in the Early Twenty-First Century Demographic Trends, Family, Economic, and Social Trends, Schools in the New Century, Reform and Policy in Educational Systems, The National Education Goals
- 16
- Final Exam
- 1
- To explain the basic concepts of education in social and historical development of the subject
- 2
- To describe societies, educational social institutions
- 3
- To compare different theories in social aspect of education
- 4
- To analyse different theories from social perspective of education.
- 5
- To analyse the social functions of school and education process.
- Quantity Percentage Total percent
- Midterms
- 1 35% 35%
- Quizzes
- 0 0% 0%
- Projects
- 1 5% 5%
- Term projects
- 0 0% 0%
- Laboratories
- 0 0% 0%
- Class participation
- 1 10% 10%
- Total term evaluation percent
- 50%
- Final exam percent
- 50%
- Total percent
- 100%
- Quantity Duration (hours) Total (hours)
- Course duration (including exam weeks)
- 16 4 64
- Off class study hours
- 14 1 14
- Duties
- 1 1 1
- Midterms
- 1 9 9
- Final exam
- 1 10 10
- Other
- 0 0 0
- Total workLoad
- 98
- Total workload / 25 (hours)
- 3.92
- ECTS
- 4.00